Eurozone Stability Under Threat of a ‘Bad Shock’
Remarkably, an increasing number of economists believe the Eurozone has addressed its weaknesses. Shades of the Great Moderation, circa 2006.
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Dirk Bezemer and Michael Hudson: Finance is Not the Economy
Picking apart the conflation of real capital with finance capital and explaining how that confusion undermines sound analysis of the crisis.
Read more...SEC Shamed: Whistleblower Refuses Multimillion Dollar Award Due to Ex-Deutsche Bank Attorneys at SEC Protecting Deutsche Execs (and Themselves)
Deutsche Bank whistleblower Eric Ben-Artzi makes a huge financial sacrifice to call out corruption in SEC enforcement.
Read more...Brexit Delusion Rises Even Further: City Pumping for Presumptuous, Nightmarish-to-Negotiate “Swiss Plus” Plan
The Brexit fantasies get even bigger as the City pumps for a na ga happen “Swiss plus” plan.
Read more...Banks Pushing Back Against Negative Interest Rates With Threat to Store Cash
Banks are looking into holding more cash as central banks threaten to drive interest rates even further into negative terrain.
Read more...How the Fed Promoted “Financial Dominance” and Shadow Banking by Promoting Repo
Yves here. This is a very important post, and sadly I’m not providing it with the introduction and commentary it warrants because I am scrambling to get organized to get out of town. By Daniela Gabor is associate professor in economics at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Originally published at the Institute […]
Read more...Hot Money and Financial Activity in Commodity Exporters
A new World Bank paper looks at the interaction between commodity prices and commodity exporters. It’s a story about hot money.
Read more...Big Wall Street Firms Make Lame Excuse for Volcker Rule Non-Compliance, Ask for Additional Five Year Extension
Big Wall Street firms like Goldman and Morgan Stanley offer “dog ate my homework” excuses for failure to comply with the Volcker Rule.
Read more...Central Banks Pushing on Strings Again
More proof that central banks have lost the plot.
Read more...Bill Black: Thomas Friedman – Deregulation Makes Banking Safe
Thomas Friedman, who needs to be renamed “Wrong Way Friedman,” tries peddling the canard that deregulation is a plus for bank stability.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Clinton’s Red-Baiting Distracts from Failure to Address Inequality, War-Mongering as Trump Flails
Clinton’s attacks on Trump distract attention from her 1% serving economic policies and her war-mongering, but Trump isn’t responding effectively.
Read more...Economists Mystified that Negative Interest Rates Aren’t Leading Consumers to Run Out and Spend
It been remarkable to witness the casual way in which central banks have plunged into negative interest rate terrain, based on questionable models. Now that this experiment isn’t working out so well, the response comes troubling close to, “Well, they work in theory, so we just need to do more or wait longer to see […]
Read more...Bill Black: Thomas Friedman’s Big Idea for Hillary – Embrace Wall Street and Deregulation
Help us, Tom Friedman is at it again…
Read more...Why the Crisis in Italy is Not Over
The structural roots of Italy’s economic problems.
Read more...Instant Payment Services – Payer Beware
How the New York Times does its readers a huge disservice by not telling them that so-called “instant payment services” are anything but that.
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